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Last.fm has a rating of 3.6 stars from 44 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Last.fm most frequently mention new music. Last.fm ranks 5th among Radio sites.

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Top Positive Review

“After all these years I still love it”

Alex T.
4/23/16

There's was a few changes with last.fm. Users always complain about it, but they always move on and use it till the day. So i guess it's just about some kind of habit or an old friend that you can't just break up with.

Top Critical Review

“Artists, bands, music labels, be aware of the facts...”

Marie B.
11/12/12

Artists, bands, music labels, be aware of the facts that this website allows its users to illegally upload your copyrighted music; and your music is generating a lot of revenue for this company through paid subscriptions and high-end ads and google tracking. You might assume that because a page has been set-up already for your band or label that you will be able to make use of the page, making it a place where your fans can leave "shouts" that are comments about your music. And you will probably assume that you'll have complete control over the images which represent you and your albums. You do not have control over much of anything on lastfm. Not only does this website allow users to constantly troll the "shoutboxes" of band pages, but they also allow users to get away with uploading "fake" images which usually have nothing to do with you or your albums. As a band page owner I am constantly having to report the same violations of supposed "rules" which this company claims to have in place to respect bands/artists. Every time I ask the ones who run this website a question, or every time I attempt to get users banned from uploading "fake" album cover pics, I am always given quick, extremely rude emails in return--telling me that I, basically, have no rights over the page which represents me and my band. On several occasions I've been told that I stand to have my own user name/account banned if I don't stop "spamming". Lastfm claims that they are happy to work along side of artists to see that the pages representing them are free of lastfm copyright and rules violations. But this company does not honour these statements. The staff are beyond rude and disrespectful towards artists. Lastfm makes a lot of revenue off of artist pages. Contact them a few times about why they don't allow bands to have more options to control their own pages and you'll find out quickly that this website cares nothing about your opinions or concerns. They are aggressively concerned with making large profits from their website. They are not in the business of caring about whom they are making that profit off of. Artists, bands, music labels should, at the very least, be given, by-law, the choice as to whether they want a lastfm page with their name on it. Period.

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Thumbnail of user alext58
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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April 23rd, 2016

There's was a few changes with last.fm. Users always complain about it, but they always move on and use it till the day.
So i guess it's just about some kind of habit or an old friend that you can't just break up with.

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3 reviews
14 helpful votes
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June 21st, 2019

I've used last.fm since 2015. This is great when you see the evolution of your music preferences, statistics can say really a lot about you and that's how you remember what has happened in October 2016, for instance, your mood and inner state. Also, recommendations work well and help you to discover new bands that you probably will like. Also, there is a lot of information about the bands.

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5 reviews
10 helpful votes
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September 24th, 2014

last.fm has been able to build up a very large database of music profiles and any kind of recommendation system, It is providing good music recommendations and it easily attract listeners. You can watch what thousands of people are playing; they have extremely accurate and up to date music charts and home maker creating. You can have good entertainment. So I am really appreciate.

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107 reviews
581 helpful votes
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October 23rd, 2009

If I really want to listen to some new music while I'm working and I don't want to pay attention to how I get it (ie, read articles) I use Last.fm. For me, it's better at finding obscure new music than Pandora. Although I find some of the pay upgrade prompts annoying (you have to pay if you want to hear a radio station based only on your favorite songs) and you have to download a client, which often crashes on my Windows Vista. Net net - not bad.

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1 review
7 helpful votes
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January 23rd, 2009

Last.fm is better for finding new music than Pandora - I hate downloading things, but the Last.Fm client is worth it. It keeps track of all the music you listen to on your computer and then plays songs for you based on those preferences. I also like Pandora, but Last.Fm has a larger variety of new music suggestions (indie rock, bluegrass, whatever).

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19 reviews
98 helpful votes
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August 16th, 2010

I think I like all the other ones beside this one. Pandora and iheart radio rock! I give them this much credit. I thought it was cool when they first came out. It's not as cool as how it use to be since all these other guys came out with better features and stuff..

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3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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February 19th, 2010

Unlike other websites, last.fm provides users with the ability to reach out to new artists while listening to music that suits one's own tastes. I have found many different songs that I enjoy through this website and feel that it has helped me become more informed with the artists that I like to listen to. It's great being able to listen to commercial free music while giving money back to the bands through the advertisements and last.fm does a lot for the music industry for recognition.

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43 reviews
344 helpful votes
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April 15th, 2010

Great music site.

Simply type in an artist you want to hear (after making a free account) and you can hear your favorite music and similar music. With FireFox you can install it as an add-on so you can listen to it anytime without having to leave the page you are on.

It also is nice since you can love or hate songs so they will never play again or more often. If you have an Xbox 360 w/ a gold membership you can link you fire.fm account and listen to the music on your 360 with the additional bonus of seeing pictures.

Awesome!

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5 reviews
20 helpful votes
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August 21st, 2009

I used to use pandora until they started charging money to use the site and then I heard about last.fm. Not only is it free but it is a better engine as well. Say goodbye to pandora, last.fm I think will win this battle of the music discovery platform

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4 reviews
8 helpful votes
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November 2nd, 2018

last.fm helps me find new music and to see what my friends are listening to. I really like seeing how my music tastes have evolved over the years and with the new year in review feature I will see who were my favourites every year with very detailed descriptions.

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25 reviews
195 helpful votes
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December 31st, 2009

I have been with last.fm for 4 years. I have over 200,000 scrobbles. I love how it has my own hit list. Tells me what bands I listened to the most that week. What song I listened to the most that week. Then there is an overall list of my listens. They have radio that caters to me. My Sprint Hero has an app and I can listen to it when I don't have a radio or my Ipod. This is one of those sites that is just perfect.

I like that you can set up groups and it'll run group lists. I watched this site while American Idol was going on this year and it pretty much helped guess who was going to go home based on how many listens they were getting. Kris and Adam were the top two the entire season.

This is a great site for those that love music.

I have not used the forums. I think that I looked at them one time and I'm not into many forums because they don't look comfortable for reading and posting.

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7 reviews
21 helpful votes
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November 2nd, 2014

If you love music- you like last.fm
Here you can find any style of music, bands, or singers, and just any information you need. You can listen to the best songs and view photos, watch videos. So, I think it's a very usefull site.

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9 reviews
24 helpful votes
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March 22nd, 2012

Nice alternative to Pandora. Pandora seems to have access to bigger artists and possibly a much larger music library, but (as others have noted) Pandora also tends to repeat songs more often.

Last.fm is a great place to discover new music, but there are a lot of great artists (famous and not-so-much) whose music is on Pandora but not available on Last.fm.

Thumbnail of user jackr3
4 reviews
35 helpful votes
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October 10th, 2009

A truly great source to find new music. I love the scrobble feature that they offer and their recommendations and neighbors are right on the money. The radio station that they offer are brilliant and I could really not ask for anymore. This is a great resource for any music lover!

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265 reviews
1,795 helpful votes
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January 7th, 2009

Preferred over pandora - after finding that pandora really wasn't suggesting any particularly fresh or new bands, i turned to last.fm. Last is user-friendly and chock full of good bands and songs, without being repetitive in its suggestions. You can allow it access to your music folder and play songs straight on last.fm. Each new track shows you a couple of other bands you might like that aren't necessarily in your library yet. I've found a handful of new bands in one sitting, everything from chamber pop to folk to shoegazing to rock and on and on. Each piece of feedback that you provide, whether you love a track or ban it, seems to be taken into consideration.

Thumbnail of user ronaldw60
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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November 10th, 2016

I used to check Last Fm couple times per hour in the past. But after changes they've made I don't use this website so often. Still the project are awesome!

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2 reviews
10 helpful votes
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August 13th, 2008

An ongoing music recommendation database - "Last.fm" (once known as "Audioscrobbler") offers media player plugins to its users. These plugins, which can be installed onto iTunes, Winamp and others, will monitor and record the ID3 data of any MP3 played by that media player. This is uploaded to a large database, which finds other users who have played the same tracks and recommends you new musical artists based on their databases. You can even download the Last.fm Player and listen to sample songs by your recommended bands. I have used this service since September of 2005, and it has never ceased to be a source of new music for me.

Thumbnail of user erikk
1 review
5 helpful votes
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July 30th, 2009

Other than having to download the player, last.fm is by far the best site to discover new music. And I have all my friends on it now so we can share what we like and don't like. I can't get enough.

Thumbnail of user willg26
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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January 16th, 2017

And all in one place. Subscribe to the interesting music creators, find your favorite performers. And take your favorite music with you everywhere you go!

Thumbnail of user tchikys
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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January 26th, 2010

I liked last.fm when it was free, although they repeat the playlists over and over again. I found this free website: http://www.tv243.com very useful to find similar artists and bands

Thumbnail of user chrisj81
26 reviews
90 helpful votes
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September 9th, 2015

This is a decent service. I find it easier to just do a youtube search for a band that i like and then look at the recommended videos.

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2 reviews
26 helpful votes
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November 11th, 2013

Pretty good site. Music was too compressed - and they nned some moderation - especially given the recent bullying fiasco

Thumbnail of user skyk
58 reviews
312 helpful votes
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April 13th, 2010

Used to like it before. Then they started charging quite a high price for their service.

Thumbnail of user nicop7
61 reviews
129 helpful votes
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August 14th, 2019

I love how they changed Last.fm. It's great for discovering new music recommendations and for keeping track of the music that you listen to. And you can scrobble from so many different sources.

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Thumbnail of user chayac
3 reviews
11 helpful votes
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June 1st, 2017

Really good. Much music and easy to use. A second everyday service to me together with another one everyone knows

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